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2 soldiers booked for rape bid
Granthis for clean environs
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Amarnath Yatra: Registration must
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2 soldiers booked for rape bid
Srinagar, June 27 Tension gripped the district town again this morning amid a complete shutdown followed by protests by people demanding action against the Army personnel. The situation was brought under control when the deputy commissioner announced that an FIR No: 122/07 had been lodged at the local police station under Sections 376, 511 and 452 of the RPC against the erring Army personnel. The trouble reportedly started when two Army personnel in civvies and posing as militants entered the house of Mohammad Rafiq at Gujarpati Kunan, 5 km from Bandipore, on Tuesday afternoon. They had reportedly attempted rape on his 17-year- old daughter, who sensing trouble allegedly for the third consecutive time raised the alarm. The villagers gathered and caught hold of the two Army men and paraded them to Bandipore town and threatened to take action against them on their own. The police prevented the situation from worsening and resorted to lathi charge and fired into the air to quell the demonstration.
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Srinagar, June 27 The conference was conducted by Sikh leader Aya Singh Dardi. It demanded the state government to clean surroundings of the gurdwara and repair the road, a press note said. The organisers said two decades of bloodshed had affected the Sikhs and new ways needed to be adopted to for all-round development. — TNS
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Martyr cremated with honours
Udhampur, June 27 Hundreds of people participated in his funeral procession. Since morning people from far-flung areas of Bhaderwah were thronging the house of the brave
soldier who was awarded the Vir Charka. Shouts of “Bharat Mata ki jai” repeatedly rent the air when his son was performing the last rites. Martyr Chuni Lal was 39 and had joined the Army as sepoy in 1984 in 8 JAK LI. He is survived by wife Chinta
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Amarnath Yatra: Registration must
Jammu, June 27 The first official jatha to the shrine in the valley will begin journey from Jammu on June 30 at 4.45 am, Jain said at a press conference here, pointing out that the pilgrims from different states had started arriving at the MA Stadium base camp in the city. Civic amenities and security had been arranged at the two forward base camps, each at Pahalgam and Baltal, in the valley. The state would not be responsible for those who had already begun the yatra to the shrine, without getting themselves registered. |
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Film fest inaugurated
Srinagar, June 27 The two-day festival of documentary, short and animation films has been organised by the Films Division and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, in collaboration with the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, after a similar festival was organised in Jammu two weeks ago. Nearly 40 films from outside and eight local films are being exhibited during the two-day festival at the SKICC here. "Do not play with our sentiments", read one of the banners raised by the Kashmir Media Professionals Association in the audience as Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad began his inaugural speech. They demanded the shifting of the DD Kashmir Channel to Srinagar, which had been functioning from New Delhi since its inception six years ago, and had not been shifted despite union minister Priyaranjan Dasmunshi’s assurances here last year. Azad said there was need to channel the available talent in Jammu and Kashmir and there was no better place for the film world to shoot different kinds of movies here. The inauguration took place after the screening of "Little Terrorist", a young boy who happened to cross over to this side of the Indo-Pakistan border while playing. The boy is prevented from the wrath of security forces by an old Hindu and his daughter who finally help him to reunite with his family on the other side of the border. "Almost 99 per cent of the people in the country are like that", commented Azad adding the film had been suitably chosen for the occasion.
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